Use Quotes - Page 177

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.

I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.

Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.

Using a mouse, keyboard or gamepad make my arm tired, so I can't use them in a continual manner. The only device I can use for an extended period of time is a joystick. It's posing problems when I'm test-playing something in progress.

The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.

[T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve the backing of politically powerful groups [...]a renaissance of German quasi-science paralleled the rise of Hitler.